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Key No longer contested at the Summer Olympics Men's records Usain Bolt currently holds three Olympic records; two individually in the 100m & 200m, and one with the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team. Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele holds the Olympic record in the 5,000 m. ♦ denotes a performance that is also a current world record. Statistics are correct as of August 5, 2024 ...
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman OAM (born 16 February 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. [2] Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the ninth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-four time at the 1996 Olympics. [3]
In running events up to 200 m in distance and in horizontal jump events, wind assistance is permitted only up to 2.0 m/s. In decathlon or heptathlon, average wind assistance of less than 2.0 m/s is required across all applicable disciplines; and maximum of 4.0 m/s in any one event. As an exception, according to rule 36.2, specific event ...
For nine years, nine months and nine days Moses was unbeaten in races, winning 122 in a row. No other athlete has come close to breaking that record. While the sports world was consumed with his ...
Many of the visiting athletes eventually wind up using the synthetic track or the 10-lane pool at NAU, the highest-elevation 50-meter swim facility in North America and a place where visitors are ...
TOKYO — The women's Olympic 100-meter gold medal is staying in Jamaica — all of the medals are, in fact. Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson finished 1-2-3 in a ...
This gained him the nickname of "The Head Waiter". (Another nickname was "Wottle the Throttle"). [10] Wottle’s winning performance was a triumphant tour de force of even-paced running. His 200m splits were 26.4, 27.1, 26.2 and 26.2. [7] Stunned by his victory, Wottle forgot to remove his cap on the podium during the national anthem. Some ...
Less than two weeks after the Moscow gold, he won the final in Cologne in a time of 10.19s, beating Americans Stanley Floyd (10.21), Mel Lattany (10.25), Carl Lewis (10.30) and Harvey Glance (10.31). [ 2 ] [ 6 ] Lattany went straight over to Wells after crossing the line to say, "For what it's worth, Allan, You're the Olympic champion and you ...